{"title":"Olga Orozco","description":"Olga Orozco (1920-1999) was one of the major 20th-century South American writers and the author of 20 books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eEngravings Torn from Insomnia\u003c\/em\u003e, translated by Mary Crow (BOA, 2002). Her work spanned more than 50 years, received more than a dozen national, regional, and municipal prizes and has been translated into more than 15 languages.","products":[{"product_id":"engravings-torn-from-insomnia","title":"Engravings Torn from Insomnia","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Olga Orozco has won almost every major literary award from her native Argentina and her work has been translated into fifteen languages, no single volume of her poetry exists in English—until now. Award-winning translator \/ Colorado Poet Laureate Mary Crow has chosen the finest of Orozco’s poems for this long-awaited Spanish-English bilingual collection, \u003cem\u003eEngravings Torn from Insomnia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe passed among you,\u003cbr\u003epeople kindly as the fire's warmth in a neighboring hut.\u003cbr\u003eBut what was your accent except a jagged dagger quivering\u003cbr\u003e     in the depth of his breast? He watched you pass,\u003cbr\u003edays drowsy as beasts in humble pastures.\u003cbr\u003eBut what was your peace except sand burning under his eyelids?\u003cbr\u003eFar away the wind blew leaving no cheeks salty.\u003cbr\u003eFar away a place exists for his shade beside the fresh shades\u003cbr\u003e     of his ancestors. \u003cbr\u003eFar away he will be the absent one less absent now.\u003cbr\u003eOh, dry your tears \u003cbr\u003ethat do not quench the thirst of the stranger.\u003cbr\u003eKeep your prayers:\u003cbr\u003ehe didn't ask for love or any other heavenly exile.\u003cbr\u003eAnd let earth lift up its lullabies like an insulted stepmother:\u003cbr\u003e\"I bear a heart as harsh and angry as the leaf of the fig tree.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802156229,"sku":"1-929918-30-5","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418388741,"sku":"1-929918-31-3","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_53.jpeg?v=1527683244"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/olga.jpg?v=1454345115","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/olga-orozco.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}